Getting Wired: Schools Face
Hurdles in Using the Internet

By

June Kronholz Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 19, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Alice Deal Junior High School in affluent northwest Washington, D.C., plugged into the Internet three years ago, well ahead of President Clinton's campaign injunction to wire the nation's schools to the future.

How has the Internet changed education at Alice Deal? Not very much, it turns out. And the same is true in most of the nation's schools, where few teachers have yet integrated the Internet into their lesson plans. The hurdles...